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On the podcast today, the two discuss what today’s reality is for AI. Grady answers questions like what does an AI mean to the practice of writing software and around how he seems it impact delivering software. In addition, Grady talks about AI surges (and winters) of over the years, the importance of ethics in software, and host of other related questions.

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Joy Gao talks about how database streaming is essential to WePay's infrastructure and the many functions that database streaming serves. She provides information on how the database streaming infrastructure was created & managed so that others can leverage their work to develop their own database streaming solutions. She goes over challenges faced with streaming peer-to-peer distributed databases.

David Spann suggests we start by asking who the audience of these certifications and asking why they want a certification:

Who: the person with the certificateWhy: they want to have proof of accomplishment and ability the worldcan easily understand, e.g., a college degree, an author, a certifiedpractitioner

Now that the community is too large for everyone to know each other Laurent Bossavit and Brian Marick have implemented the first version of an alternative to Certificates. Replacing certificates individuals make formal statements of certification, example:

I, Laurent Bossavit, a member of the agile community, certify Rachel Davies as having outstanding skills in Retrospective Facilitation, based on the following evidence: I attended a Retrospective which she facilitated at a conference and took away key learnings from the experience.

When you've collected several statements in a given area potential employers or clients will know that you have some expertise. In Starting Ideas a number of possibilities are explored that explain how this individual statements can be turn into a useful measure(s) of trust.